MARTIAL BEHAVIOR SBN Ramón Navarro Martial Behavior
This Pandemic crisis does not want to leave us alone and I hope we all continue to take care of ourselves and I hope no one else is affected by it. What do I mean by martial behavior, that martial art includes many things from learning through personal experience plus what has been learned. The first thing is respect as part of tradition. One must respect those of higher rank, that is, from the top down like this: the teacher, the teacher's teacher. To those of higher rank than one as to those who have my own rank as to those of lower rank. As well as respect for those who are from other arts or do not train in martial art. Values are a formation that comes from home more than from another place but if the person is closedminded or a negative person, it is for no use that they have been taught the best possible ethics or education. I believe that everything is in learning from a good base guided by a good example or whatever good ethics or morals are. The person or the martial student needs a good base, based on good ethics and good moral since a person who does not have good honesty cannot be an integral person. In martial art, the lineage that is thought in the house is important. In addition to the father of the family, maintaining respect towards others on behalf of the grandfather since everything in life is reciprocal. Also, in the martial art is good to have your teacher and meet his teacher’s teacher and know your lineage. Everything is based on ethics and morals. This is so since let's say that the first teacher taught good roots, a good base with principles of good example and treatment to others.
This is given in growth and expansion. In this way you can form an organization. Of course, everything starts from a teacher who teaches a person let's call him a student, who decides to share this knowledge with other people and what happens is that this student starts a school, let's call this a house. Speaking of home, there is a surname and this student to whom he teaches also transmits the good example and good behavior so that one of his students also places an academy or school and the main teacher forms an association and it is possible to keep this house together to control the teaching curriculum for the generations to come so as not to say they deviate the path. So, from one school that is transformed into several and these for the moment will be manage to expand this knowledge so over time and this growth can be a bit complicated whether it is controlled let's say, by the grandfather or the dad to say and his brothers still control the way of teaching by making a federation that will be needed to control this expansion. The best way to grow is based on respect, values and tradition. You have to feed it not lose it and it is formed into a tradition. This tradition will become a culture or custom. Good values and good principles are more important than the number of ranks. Many people want to be the 'I have more rank than you' to the point it might be people that do not have the proper personal security and what they have is low self-esteem and that is why they seek that recognition. Why don't they invent a new martial art instead? It's nice to have you beginning in the martial art with that same first teacher. There are people who want to rise in rank and since they don't get it when they want it they seek to belong in a federation where they can get a new rank and after they achieve that
they go to another to do the same. I do not understand but this has a cost, even if it is a very small expense to receive that new degree or rank from a person whom they do not really know from whom they do not learn anything. You give them your money and they only give you a piece of paper and not to say a certificate since this represents what you learned and go to a seminar, sign up with a federation then go to the next activity or seminar on a weekend travel and when return bring a new rank to which they were promoted and traveling for a month they will not learn enough in that time to have learned enough and in a simple trip to return with a new rank. It's not good to be jumping from one martial art to another and so on. Of course, it is good to find the system that is for you and not be jumping around and really learn correctly. It is something to dedicate time in a martial art in which one has started. Achieving by dedicating themselves for many years and obtain the black belt or more until one day that person becomes a teacher and that should be minimum 4th Dan black belt or more. Becoming a grand teacher being an 8th Dan Black Belt. There are people who group together, even from different martial arts and give rank among themselves. This is not honorable. The honorable thing is not to deceive yourself or less to deceive other people as new students and worse is those who get carried away knowing what this is really about, but prefer without the effort and investment of their time to dedicate themselves obtaining this achievement due to follow the current attitude and it is not productive since those ranks they give themselves do not have true validity. Okay let's change the subject. In general, each martial art school will belong to an organization or association and this will be part of a federation. If it is a federation with a track record in addition to being a responsible federation and a good example, the student will become black belts and more with true pride. More if that person manages to have a school and the true achievements are not those of having students who are black belts or not. They are to have students whom with effort and dedication of time reach minimum a black belt. There are different types of martial arts and they come from different regions. Although it is accepted that they are from the east
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